Patrick Fealy

Love By Proxy

Distant maiden of my youth I love you ever stillserving now by proxy while assisting proxies will loving her my lady fair who’s surrogates renewall the former glory that my lady did eschew holy now in retrospect and like a Saint is shescorning all those detriments a lady could foreseeloving now all others through the lens of her complaintlike some valiant hero in those pains of that restrainttraveling a pilgrimage recalling love so pure